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NFDHR distributed 335743 food baskets to IDPs and vulnerable host communities during 2018
The National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Response (NFDHR) distributed more than 335,000 food baskets to IDPs and affected people in Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda and Marib Governorates during the last year 2018.
According to Food…
This has to be the last time that 80% of Yemen’s population needs humanitarian aid – CARE
(February 20, 2019) — As the United Nations' third high-level donor pledging event to garner support for the humanitarian response in Yemen gets underway in Geneva, CARE is calling for the world to do everything it can to make sure this is…
Yemen: Responding to the World’s worst Humanitarian Crisis (V3)
With a combination of conflict, cholera, extreme food insecurity, and widespread poverty, in 2018 the situation in Yemen deteriorated to such an extent that it is now considered the worst humanitarian crisis anywhere in the world. More than…
Redeployment agreement from Hudaydah welcome – calls to bring positive change for children
Statement by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
SANA’A/AMMAN, 20 February 2019 – “UNICEF welcomes the recent agreement by parties to the conflict in Yemen to begin the mutual redeployment of…
Yemen: 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview
NEEDS AND KEY FIGURES
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen remains the worst in the world. Nearly four years of conflict and severe economic decline are driving the country to the brink of famine and exacerbating needs in all sectors. An…
WHO EMRO Weekly Epidemiological Monitor: Volume 12, Issue 5 (3 February 2019)
MERS cluster in Oman
During the month of January 2019, the Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman reported a cluster of five cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) infection from the North Batinah Governorate. Two cases from…
Protection Cluster Yemen Response and Gap Analysis, January – December 2018
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/protection-cluster-yemen-response-and-gap-analysis-january-december-2018
Yemen: Responding to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis
By UN HUMANITARIAN
The crisis in Yemen continues to worsen, exacting a devastating toll on civilians and forcing 24 million people to need aid to survive. As the economy declines and food prices continue to soar, more than 20 million…
Yemen: How one baby made it against all odds
The face of famine “I was looking at the face of famine,” says photojournalist Giles Clarke, recalling what he saw upon entering El Sadaqah hospital in Aden, Yemen, on 14 November 2018. “Children so deeply sick that they could hardly move…
Outbreak update – Cholera in Yemen, 14 February 2019
14 February 2019 - The Ministry of Public Health and Population of Yemen reported 8639 suspected cases of cholera and 5 associated deaths during epidemiological week 3 (14 – 20 January) of 2019. Ten percent of cases are severe.…